Senior Data Engineer — CDP & Data Platform Architect

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Sutton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the UK is seeking a Lead Engineer to design and deliver scalable customer data platform (CDP) solutions, enabling unified and high-quality customer insights across the organisation.

You will work closely with both technical and business stakeholders to shape architecture, lead design decisions, and ensure effective integration of customer data systems with governance and privacy controls.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data architecture.
• Proven experience as a Lead Engineer or Senior Individual Contributor owning critical platforms or capabilities.
• Experience designing and operating Customer Data Platforms (e.g., Oracle Unity, Salesforce Data Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Tealium).
• Strong expertise in data modelling, Customer 360 architectures, data pipelines, and ETL frameworks.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python, and JSON.
• Experience integrating CDPs with enterprise ecosystems such as data lakes, CRM, marketing automation, and analytics platforms.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) and REST APIs.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality frameworks, and data privacy regulations, with the ability to lead technical discussions and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable customer data solutions using Oracle Unity CDP, aligned with enterprise data architecture and business objectives
• Build and integrate data pipelines to ingest, transform, unify, and synchronize customer data from multiple internal and external sources
• Define, implement, and maintain data models supporting Customer 360 profiles, segmentation, and activation use cases, with strong data quality controls
• Integrate Oracle Unity CDP with the enterprise data lake and related platforms, ensuring consistency and governance
• Lead and contribute to technical design, data modelling, and architecture workshops with engineering and business stakeholders
• Identify technical design and data model risks, validate their impact, and develop mitigation strategies
• Monitor, optimise, and support ETL processes and CDP operations, resolving data quality, performance, and integration issues
• Establish and maintain documentation, data governance, and security standards, ensuring compliance with privacy and regulatory requirements
• Communicate technical concepts, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to non-technical stakeholders and executive audiences
• Partner with the Oracle vendor implementation team throughout discovery, build, and go-live phases

Skills

Lead Engineer

Data Platform

CDP design

Data modelling

ETL pipelines

SQL

Python

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Oracle Unity CDP

Oracle Cloud

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the UK is seeking a Lead Engineer to design and deliver scalable customer data platform (CDP) solutions, enabling unified and high-quality customer insights across the organisation.

You will work closely with both technical and business stakeholders to shape architecture, lead design decisions, and ensure effective integration of customer data systems with governance and privacy controls.